MORPHOLOGICAL TYPOLOGY: FROM ISOLATING TO LANGUAGES
Keywords:
Morphology, linguistic typology, analytic languages, isolating type, agglutination, fusion, polysynthesis, morpheme structure, grammatical encoding, linguistic universals, cross-linguistic analysis.Abstract
This expanded article provides an in-depth examination of morphological
typology as one of the key frameworks in linguistic classification. The study offers a
comprehensive comparison of isolating, agglutinative, fusional, and polysynthetic
languages, emphasizing their structural, grammatical, and functional distinctions. It
also evaluates the principles that shape morphological complexity, highlights universal
tendencies, and discusses the significance of morphological typology for linguistic
theory, language documentation, and comparative research. Examples from world
languages are used to illustrate how different morphological strategies encode
meaning. The extended analysis demonstrates the importance of morphology in
understanding the cognitive and structural foundations of human language.
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